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Aug. 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Buck in for Rush today on the EIB.
Phone lines open, 800-282-2882.
Love to take some calls later on in the hour.
But first, let's talk about substance.
One of the complaints that I hear, I hear it from just friends of mine.
I hear it from people who are in the media, from the punditocracy, some of whom are also friends of mine.
We're not talking about enough substance in this political season.
And I agree with that.
I agree with that.
But part of the problem is that we're not even able to reach common ground with the left on what constitutes substance we're talking about in the first place.
So we're not talking about a lot of substance.
And even if we were trying, we don't agree on what is a substantial political debate or a worthwhile political debate at this point in time to be having.
Where should we focus our energy and our attention?
Should we be talking about Obamacare?
We've got Aetna saying it might be leaving a whole bunch of states, and premiums are going to be skyrocketing next year, and all kinds of the whole Obamacare house of cards is starting to fall apart.
And the only way they're going to keep together is to shovel more taxpayer dollars into the bottom of it.
But I digress.
I mean, that's just like your health care, man.
I mean, maybe that's not such a big deal to you and your loved ones, your family, though I doubt it.
I feel like healthcare matters to everybody.
Not a lot of talk about that.
I know Trump has said that he'll replace Obamacare or repeal it, replace it, but not a lot of discussion over what's really happening right now.
On the other side of things, you've got the Democrats who are all in on the identity politics of, well, transgenderism.
And so we all have to focus on this now.
This has become an issue all the way from grade schools up into universities and the workplace.
The federal government, just what was it, a couple of months ago, I believe it was, has even gone as far, I mean, the Obama administration has gone as far as to say that unless there are gender-neutral guidelines put in place for schools and that there will be a respect for gender as a form of psychological identity instead of a biological reality, they'll pull funds.
They'll take away the cash from your kids' school.
That was what the administration, at least, was threatening to do.
And you say to yourself, wait, President Obama, he doesn't have the power of the person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
The Constitution, Schmanstitution, who cares?
He doesn't care about that stuff.
They're just going to pull the funds.
They'll figure it out later.
What are you going to do?
Sue Obama?
He's packed the courts already, except for the Supreme Court.
That will be what Hillary manages to do.
But the lower courts have already been packed by Obama.
By the way, BT Dub.
He has transformed the political affiliation of the circuit courts, appeals courts.
So that's going to be fun when we think that there'll be some checks and balances on a possible Hillary administration.
The courts are going to be rubber stamping it all the way up to the top.
And then if she gets a Supreme Court, we're going to have to deal with that as well, everybody.
I don't know how limited government and liberty in whatever state you think it is right now survives eight years of a Hillary presidency.
But I know it could be four, but let's assume it might be eight.
These are all important issues, but they'd rather talk, of course, about, or rather, Obamacare is an important issue and power of the purse and constitutionalism.
But they want us all to focus on transgender bathroom rights.
It's become one of these celebrity projects as well, right?
They'll refuse to go to a state that says that you have to use the battle.
They'll refuse to perform, I should say.
And businesses also will engage in very selective boycotts here.
So, I mean, don't go to North Carolina.
Go hang out in Saudi Arabia as much as you want.
Take whatever cash you need to from them.
Do business with them.
That's cool.
Or, you know, name a country where there's all kinds of very real, very violent oppression against the LGBTQ community.
But the grandstanding on this is grotesque, especially from the celebrities who seem to think that this is an opportunity to show everybody just how enlightened and politically active they are.
Ooh, anytime now I see any celebrity or actor who's also sort of and activist, I mean, if they're a leftist, of course, I'm like, oh, gosh, here we go.
Now we get lectured by somebody who doesn't know anything but expects people to pay attention to them anyway.
It's great stuff.
Target targets a very big chain of stores, as you know.
Back in April, they upset some of their customers by saying that they would have a bathroom policy that allowed people to use the gender that they felt more or that they identified with, right?
That gender was not biological reality.
We're not at XX chromosome, XY chromosome.
No, no, use the bathroom that you see fit.
And to no one's surprise, it would seem, except perhaps the executive suite of Target, there was a bit of a backlash to this.
People were not particularly enthusiastic about this idea coming down from Target.
And so they backed off of it.
And now they're spending, according to the Washington Times here, it's reported elsewhere as well, 20 million bucks on single-stall bathrooms.
So not only does the left have a sort of the cultural war aspect of this, and also really just the war on, you could even say it's kind of the war on science or scientific reality.
Male-female is a thing.
It is a thing.
It's a real tangible reality of biology.
It is hashtag science.
And yet they ignore this because, well, because of a few reasons.
One of them, I think, is that they just really like to find any way that they can, because they've won so many other cultural wars and battles therein, that they just want to find ways to make conservatives, and by that they really also mean believing and practicing Christians, religious Jews, they want to make them bend the knee on this stuff and say, yes, you're right.
Biology doesn't matter.
Gender is whatever you say.
It's fluid.
It's a spectrum.
And they want policies that reflect this.
And not only that, but they want language that reflects this as well.
We've got the policy being instituted, of course, at Target, where they're now spending, and that's, of course, a private corporation, but probably trying to avoid lawsuits on either side.
They're like, oh, okay, okay, whatever we have to do, we'll do here.
I'll spend the cash.
I'll spend the cash.
We'll do single stalls and that'll be it.
And we'll spend millions of dollars on making sure that, I mean, I don't know how many of Target's customers are transgender and feel the need to use a different bathroom than their gender in the first place, right?
You maybe, maybe you're transgender, but still would use the original gender.
I don't know.
I'm actually not all that familiar with the ins and outs of that.
But my sense of it is that this is probably a pretty small problem in terms of the numbers.
And yet it's become an issue of national policy.
The White House is behind it.
You can say to me, Buck, who cares?
Why are we?
And I say to you, yeah, I know, but this is what matters to the left.
And go back and, well, I mean, this would bore you to tears, so I can't actually advocate doing this.
But you go back and you listen to some of the Democrat debates, and you get a sense of what country are they living in?
The biggest fights, the biggest concerns we have are global, not global warming, climate change, or is it climate disruption?
I don't know.
They keep changing.
They keep disrupting it.
Or transgender rights or equal pay for women, which has been debunked by economists so many times, but they keep saying it and saying it and saying it.
$15 minimum wage, despite all the research that's been done on that issue to show that increasing the minimum wage at $15 would not actually have a particularly profound impact on helping lower-income families.
It would help some other families.
There'll be some winners and losers.
But if you think having a $15 minimum wage isn't also going to mean that there are hours reduced and there's greater unemployment, well, take it up with the economists who crunch the numbers.
Back to single-stall bathrooms and Target.
See, they want us, we have to talk about this stuff because they make it an issue of policy.
And the left, it feels like, as I said, it's not even that we disagree about how to handle certain issues.
We disagree about what issues are particularly important in a lot of cases.
This is something that the left has made important in the sense that we have to deal with it.
Now, the White House is pushing this, and it's an issue of federal policy.
So Target's spending $20 million.
There are economic consequences to their lunacy and their pandering, to the sort of progressive insanity that's upon us now.
And there are consequences well beyond that as well.
In North Carolina now, teachers are being told by teachers in Charlotte, North Carolina have been advised, this was on Fox News, to stop calling children boys and girls.
They don't want to confuse the kids about whether they're a boy or a girl.
This is in any other era where we hadn't had eight years of progressive rule and the media feeling like they're running out of social issues to sort of just jam down the throats of the American people.
They're running out of ways to antagonize and ostracize Christians and Judeo-Christian culture in this country.
I mean, they're running out, so now they've got to find crazier and crazier things.
And so now in North Carolina, they have a special teaching tool as well.
They have a gender unicorn to explain gender identity to the kids.
It's a purple unicorn meant to sort of let them know that boys and girls are not, you know, it's not clear there's such a thing as boys and girls.
There's sort of this whole spectrum.
They're teaching this to kids.
These little kids.
That's why they're using a purple unicorn here, right?
This is real, everybody.
This is what's happening right now.
And keep in mind that it'd be one thing if this was just a little bit of craziness here, a little bit of craziness there, but overall, no, this is a reflection of White House policy.
This is what the White House wants, what the federal government, which controls the Department of Education, this is what they're trying to force on your kids, brainwashing them into thinking.
I mean, how can you have any education in science when you start out telling kids, well, there's not really boys and girls, and let's not use those words.
And those words could be hurtful because they're exclusionary.
It's like, well, but I also don't understand.
It falls down.
It collapses into self-contradiction.
If there's no boys and no girls, well, how can one identify as one and identify as the other?
Because it doesn't really, that distinction ceases to exist at a certain point if it's just all a mindset.
And then people say, oh, well, there's gender.
And a fantastic point from Mr. Sterling.
If there's no boys and no girls, what's this whole equal pay thing about?
Right?
That seems...
Oh, you mean there are distinctions.
People can tell the difference.
There are distinctions between boys and girls.
Who knew?
It's not even just at the grade school level where they are propagandizing your kids now in North Carolina.
I'm sure this is happening elsewhere as well with a purple unicorn to explain that gender's a spectrum.
Gender's just an idea.
It's a feeling.
This is craziness.
This is from the College Fix website I'm not familiar with, but I see this.
But I believe it because of what's going on.
I mean, I believe the story because this is happening at universities all over the place.
Princeton is trying to get rid of using the word man in any official documents or anything.
They want generic terms and expressions.
They want human beings, individuals, or people.
No more man.
They are erasing man.
It's not, you know, Adam and Eve.
It's just two humanoid life forms.
I don't know what to say.
And the administration's onboard for this.
And they think we're the anti-science people.
Climate change is hyperbole.
Okay, let's go into a break.
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Much more coming.
Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh today.
Very much enjoying my time at the EIB Mike.
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How much coverage have you seen about the floods in Louisiana, by the way?
Speaking of the media and its agendas and everything else, do you see a lot?
Usually, this is the kind of thing, and this is just the truth, that any natural disaster or any time there's a lot of footage they can show of disaster and people in despair, the media shows a lot of that.
But you're definitely not seeing much coverage of this.
I certainly haven't seen much coverage of it.
It's not a topic of a lot of conversation.
And of course, there's the side of this about how, well, President Obama's on vacation and hasn't stopped his vacation for this.
He did stop the vacation to go on the stump for Hillary at one point, but hasn't decided that he's going to keep in mind, you know, for you, for me, if you live across the country, you want to go down and help, it's expensive.
It's an ordeal.
You've got to get on a plane.
If the president wants to go down there, Air Force One is right there.
He hops on, can do whatever he wants, go down, make sure everything's going as well as it can with the relief efforts, and then he can come back.
It's not hard.
It's not asking a lot for the president to do that.
And you could say, well, Buck, he's on vacation.
Well, you know, I do recall, and I know that people would say, well, look at the death toll in Hurricane Katrina much higher than the death toll here.
Okay, I understand that.
Understand that not all natural disasters are the same in terms of the amount of damage and the scope and the loss of life.
That's all fair points.
But President Bush was annihilated by the press over his lack of response to the whole thing and over his sort of lack of involvement.
And there was that photo that was supposed to be him showing concern flying by Air Force One.
And of course, it turned into something else the way the press depicted it.
It was him being distanced from the whole thing and he didn't much care.
That was the way that they talked about it.
It's very damaging to the Bush presidency.
I mean, I don't think the Bush presidency ever really recovered from a reputational standpoint as a result of what happened with Katrina.
Right now, in Louisiana, you have a death toll of 13.
This is on the ABC News site.
This is their count.
70,000 people have registered for emergency, have registered for assistance.
At least 40,000 homes have been hit by this flooding.
You've got tens of thousands of people who are homeless, who are displaced.
And this all continues to be a very difficult, very destructive, and dangerous situation.
And media's not really seeming to give a whole lot of what about it.
Much more important to them to find the latest gaffe.
Let's find something that Trump said in a foreign policy speech that was either inarticulate or that offends our delicate media sensibilities.
There's also, of course, I think the aspect of this that where are we now?
We're at August 18th.
Much of the media could be found on at least a lot of important people, the media, a lot of the big media figures who just speak the truth.
They're out on the Vineyard, Nantucket, maybe out east, as they say here in New York City, which is a code word for the Hamptons because now you don't say Hamptons anymore.
A lot of the media is out there probably at this point taking a little bit of time off.
And as you know, the news cycle is a construct.
It's a narrative that's put together by people who work in the media.
And so that may have some impact on what's getting covered and what doesn't.
But it's just Trump Trump Trump all the time.
And I think Jay Johnson, the latest I see here is that Jay Johnson's going to be going down, Homeland Security Secretary, to visit Louisiana.
Okay.
So they're sending somebody from the administration.
They're making some effort here.
But again, not a lot of attention paid to this.
No one's seeming to criticize the administration's lack of a response.
And then, of course, there's that pesky question about the optics of a president being on vacation in Martha's Vineyard while there's a natural disaster going on that's affecting tens of thousands of people, perhaps up to 100,000 people.
And what I mean affecting, and people have lost their homes.
People have nowhere to go.
You would think that President Obama, who will no longer have the very weighty responsibilities of being the commander-in-chief come January, you'd think that maybe he could make an exception for this one.
I feel like other presidents maybe would get a little more criticism for this one.
I'm just putting it out there.
I feel like it's possible that's the case.
Maybe they're giving him a pass on this.
Or maybe it's just they'd rather talk about how Trump is the worst.
And if people are suffering in Louisiana, that's secondary to Trump for them.
All right, everybody, Buck is back in for Rush on the EIB today.
We are joined now by Ron Goudot.
He's calling us from Louisiana where he is helping out with the Cajun Navy.
Ron, appreciate you giving us a ring.
Hey, Buck, thanks for having me on.
So tell everybody listening, what is the Cajun Navy and what are you up to to help folks down in Louisiana?
Man, the Cajun Navy is grassroots Louisiana citizens helping neighbor to neighbor.
And that's just what we're doing.
We're going out and rescuing people out of houses.
That's what we've been doing the last three days, pulling people out of houses, bringing water to pregnant women stranded out in the middle of nowhere, pulling cats off of roofs.
We've been working with local authorities to get that accomplished.
And give folks a sense of how bad is it.
I think people hear flooding, and they don't really necessarily visualize how grave, how serious a situation is.
And what kind of things are you seeing?
I mean, how much water are people getting in their houses?
You're saying people are trapped.
Pregnant women can't get food.
Give us some sense of what you're seeing out there.
Yeah, if you open up a map and look at Baton Rouge and you look north about an hour, the Mississippi state line is right there.
A storm landed on that area of the state and stayed there for two days.
Now, in Baton Rouge and the Gulf Coast, it rains every day for about 3 o'clock.
You can count on it's going to rain.
And so the ground's already saturated all summer.
Well, it rained hard for two days.
This storm would not move.
And it created a huge amount of water that had nowhere to go but south.
And what it's done, Buck, is created, it carved a swath of destruction as it headed south.
I don't know how wide it is.
It must be 10 to 15 miles wide.
And it headed south.
It's just now hitting areas in the swamps in the kind of the southeast portion of the state, kind of east of New Orleans, is where it's ended up.
But they can draw a line from that, you know, that corner of Mississippi, just right above Baton Rouge, all the way down to New Orleans, and it went right through that area, at least 10, maybe 15 miles wide, is what I think I would guess.
And are the floodwaters still very high?
I mean, have things started to recede?
Are you able to get close?
Is it easier to get to people now?
What's the status of the relief effort?
There's still floodwaters in a lot of places.
You know, you would hear, well, the fly, you know, you hear on the news from, you know, the floodwater has gone down in Denham Springs.
Well, all that means is it went up to the cities south of it.
And so, you know, it goes down, but it doesn't mean it's going away.
It's just moving south.
And there's still a lot of places that are inaccessible.
Most of it has gone down.
And places are, the majority of places are accessible.
And people are moving into cleanup mode, moving into distribution mode.
And that's actually one of the things we're doing today.
We're kind of figuring out how to retool what we've been doing with boaters and turning it into a distribution network.
I have to tell the story of the boaters, though.
These guys showed up and they started just putting their boats in the water right away, Sunday.
And then Monday, we started hitting roadblocks.
Authorities really took control, and it was more difficult to get in Monday.
And Monday was really kind of an unsuccessful day for the Cajun Navy.
But we learned from it.
Monday night, we regrouped and we said, how do we get to these people?
Well, we realized we needed to go through the authorities.
And so we basically went Tuesday morning, we said, go to the staging area, go and make a friend with a deputy, because what they wanted us to do was have a deputy in the boat with us, go make a friend with a deputy, and go and get some people.
And it was Tuesday.
We had probably 75 boats that went and had success rescuing people out of houses, off of land, getting cats, bringing food.
Tuesday was where the Cajun, where the Cajun Navy was born basically on Tuesday.
And when you say boats, by the way, I'm assuming kayaks, canoe, I mean, anything that floats that can help people, right?
It was a learning process.
I mean, yeah, people definitely did the smaller things, but we're talking, you know, Louisiana is a very sportsman's paradise.
That's our big boats, too.
But everybody with anything that floats is helping out, I assume.
We needed specific types of boats.
We learned that on, that was one of the things we were having problems with Monday.
We said, well, we can't have V-hull boats.
You have to have a flat-bottom boat.
The shallower the boat goes into the water, the better, because you'll push that boat through the water for a mile, and then you've got to pick up the boat and portage it for a mile.
And that was happening.
And so the shallower the boat, the better.
We learned that, and we wouldn't let any boaters go into the water or join Cajun Navy unless they had a flat-bottom boat.
That was just an example of the things we learned that made us more successful on Tuesday.
So our local authorities are obviously all over this, and you're working with them to try to be as effective as possible.
Is there much of a federal response?
Are you seeing the federal government step in in a meaningful way?
To be honest with you, I have not paid attention.
I haven't watched TV in three days.
I haven't really focused on that.
I don't think any of us have.
Look, I've had eight hours of sleep literally in the last three days.
My main dispatcher, and I'll talk about our system, but our main dispatcher hasn't slept since yesterday morning at 5 p.m.
I was just on a conference call with her.
We're not funded.
We don't want money.
We're not any kind of organization.
We are just citizens that are making things happen, and we've used technology to do it.
We're using an app to communicate with boaters out in the water.
We basically have a CB system that every boater, every Cajun Navy boater has.
And we have a GPS system that we know where they are so we can see them from a dispatch perspective.
And the dispatchers are connecting them with people who are posting on Facebook that they need this done.
They need, you know, my grandma is stranded and we need to get her, you know, we need to get her some water.
She doesn't want to leave.
So would you bring her a box of water?
Well, that's what's happening.
And so somebody will get it off of Facebook.
We vet it.
The first thing we do is we make sure that they went through the proper channels.
We're really getting the ones that kind of fall through the cracks, the ones that maybe get forgotten or they just can't get in touch with authorities.
So we make sure they went through the proper channels first, and then we go after them.
They get vetted, they get dispatched, and then the dispatch sends it to the boat guy directly through our CB network, and they go get them.
And the whole time, we have a CB chatter going on.
It's been non-stop.
The CB chatter has been non-stop since we started using it on Sunday.
Well, look, it's incredible.
It's great to hear that we've got citizens who are just helping out their neighbors and this whole process that you're undergoing to bring people aid and under very difficult circumstances.
You're speaking to a lot of people across the country right now who are listening who might not be able to be there with a boat, flat bottom or otherwise, but would like to help.
What can they do?
Is there a site they can go to?
Is there anything they can do at all to help you all down in your efforts?
You know, we are grassroots citizens.
The very best thing they can do is go through your established trusted organizations to donate and send supplies.
If you live in the area and you want to help, by all means, do what you have to do to bring stuff to the local distribution centers yourself.
But look, that's what we're kind of switching into.
The rescue has really fallen off.
We're retooling to become people are messaging us on Facebook, on our Facebook group.
So what's your Facebook?
Is Cajun Navy on a Facebook page?
This is what I'm talking about.
The group is the Cajun Navy on Facebook.
That's right, sir.
And they are messaging us.
I have a truckload of water.
We had two truckloads of water, and it's on the road.
It's on its way.
We don't even know where it's going.
We're not even tooled to do that.
So we're figuring out, okay, where are we going to send this water?
Well, we're retooling now to get it to become a distribution network.
We're putting in the DC centers.
We have a Google Map.
We're pinning them.
And we're getting all the trucks to start using the same GPS technology we were using with the boats.
And we're getting them to the DC centers.
And the DC centers are handling the actual distribution out into the community.
So we're not involved in that.
We're just going to help get those things that people are sharing with us on Facebook, and they want to contribute to distribution centers and letting the distribution centers get them into their neighborhood.
We have about seven identified across the region.
And it isn't just Baton Rouge, guys.
This is kind of one of the things.
Lafayette has also been hit and areas kind of west of Lafayette.
I'm from Lafayette originally, and Baton Rouge a lot of times gets all the attention.
And the fact is, this is a wide storm that affected areas from Jennings and Lake Charles all across South Louisiana all the way across over to Baton Rouge.
So the whole southern portion of the state is actually being affected.
That storm stayed above Lafayette for quite a while as well.
All right.
Ron Goudeau of the Cajun Navy, everybody listening who's in the area or wants to help out, go check out the Cajun Navy's Facebook page.
Ron, great work you're doing.
Really appreciate you calling to tell us about it.
Hey, Buck, thank you for having me on.
I really appreciate it.
Absolutely, sir.
All right, we'll go into a break.
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Buck here in for Rush.
Buck Sexton, that is.
Robert in Columbus, Ohio.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You're speaking to Buck.
Yeah, thanks, Buck, for taking my call.
Thank you.
Hey, I'm not a Democrat or a Republican.
I'm just an independent out here in the cheap seats of society.
And it seems to me that the Republican Party is in shreds, and Trump's campaign appears to be circling the drain.
I don't think he'll win Ohio.
He has no ground game here, and Governor Kasich hates his guts.
And we all know what happens to Republicans when they lose Ohio.
But I wanted to ask you, how much effect do you think Trump will have on the rest of the ticket?
Hillary, I think all she needs to do is keep a low profile, shut her mouth, and Trump will take care of the rest.
But what effect do you think Trump will have on the rest of the ticket?
And what do you think the Republican Party will look like a year from now?
You know, Robert, I can only offer you my predictions with the caveat that I don't think anybody can predict this.
So with that, so now I'm like totally free and clear here to say whatever I want because I don't think anybody knows.
I think anybody who says they know is just making it up.
But I'll give you my assessment, right?
My analysis, my sense of where all of this is going.
I mean, look, it's for Trump to win at this point, it's going to have to be another time.
And it's happened many times so far in the last 12 months when all the conventional wisdom is wrong and somehow Trump is right and the polls aren't reflective of sentiment or maybe there's a huge change that happens in the debates or there would have to be an event or something that we can't necessarily foresee right now that changes the trajectory of this whole thing.
I don't know if that's going to happen.
It looks bad right now, but keep in mind, you never want to do what your enemy wants you to do.
And right now, the leftist media, the drive-bys, they firmly want, they're absolutely dedicated to the idea of it's already over.
The election's over.
There's nothing, it's done, right?
Republicans are fleeing.
Trump's campaigns in disarray and everything else.
So I don't like to give them what they want as a general rule.
If you're asking me if it looks like the campaign doesn't have enough of a ground game and they're not spending money where they should, yeah.
Yeah, I'd say that that all looks that all looks to be the case.
But then again, people have been saying that about Trump all along.
And I mean, what worked in the primary probably won't work in the general, but we won't know until election day.
So that's kind of a lot of talking without much of an answer, but that's because I don't think anybody has a real answer.
And then on the issue of what the Republican Party looks like, it obviously depends tremendously on what happens with Trump.
I mean, if Trump wins, it feels like it's Trump's party and we're all living in it.
You know what I mean?
Or the Republican Party at least.
If Trump loses, that to me is a little bit more up in the air because there'll be an effort, I think, to create a sort of media entities that try to continue the Trump brand and the Trump version of Republican politics and carry that torch going forward.
I think I do believe there will be a backlash from a lot of conservative media against other people in the media on the right now, this is for backing Trump and abandoning conservative principles and all the, you know, essentially the never Trump crew is not going to forget anytime soon who the early Trump backers were and who was willing to sort.
So that's it's going to be a mess.
That much I'm confident about.
It will be a mess.
Yes, and as Mr. Snurdle has pointed out, the never Trumpers will also not be forgotten.
In fact, I think the Trump supporters already have it set up so that if Trump loses, and we all know this, and Trump's already been insinuating this himself, Trump loses, the narrative won't be that he was always a candidate who was weak, who wasn't conservative, who was never going to pull this off.
The narrative will be that the never Trumpers abandoned him and that essentially the Republican establishment would rather Hillary win than have Trump as a pseudo-Republican in the White House.
And look, I know some conservatives who are out there saying they will vote Hillary over Trump.
I don't, I can sit here and say, all right, I get I'm not going to vote, period, or I'm going to vote.
I mean, maybe third party, but I don't know, really.
I can get all that, though.
But I'm a conservative.
Like, the people that are telling me I'm a conservative and therefore I'm going to vote for Hillary because I think that's better.
That to me is just unfathomable.
I can't understand that.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
Don't vote for Trump if you're a conservative because he doesn't, you know, no one can force you to do anything and that's your own thing.
But to vote for Hillary because you're a conservative, for me, that's that's jumping the shark like the Fonz.
That's just crazy.
That's how I feel about that.
And that's what I have to say on that issue right now.
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Roger in Omaha, what's up, buddy?
Rutch.
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
My comment is for the lady earlier that is voting for Hillary, just because she's a woman, she doesn't take into consideration that she's a liar, a cheat, and everything else, but it's just the fact that she's a woman is the reason she's voting for her.
Does that make sense?
I mean, you're saying that you think that Hillary's a bad candidate and kind of a bad person, and she shouldn't just vote for her because she's a woman.
I think I said the same thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
So it's kind of one of those that, so what, you know, so instead of voting on somebody that might be able to help our country get better, somebody that's a woman is going to be better because she's a woman.
Yeah, no, I don't like, I don't like voting based on identity politics of any kind, but people are going to, you know, do as they're going to do.
With Hillary, it's, you know, she would be the first woman president.
So it kind of defeats the whole purpose of the things that we were talking about after that.
About, you know, there is no gender.
We're all yeah, if gender is a state of mind, the first woman president should be a much less exciting thing to people than it is.
But it's not a state of mind.
So we all kind of deep down know that or just know that because it's true.
Roger, thanks for calling from Omaha.
Good to talk to you.
Yeah, look, by the way, I didn't really get on this, but the swimmers apparently lied about their whole situation.
According to the police in Brazil right now, we're being told that they were at a gas station, they broke a door.
Ryan Lochte, who's one of the great swimmers, they broke a door and then they had to pay for it and they weren't robbed.
I feel like the Brazilians are just very upset.
It's really bad PR when a gold medal swimmer during the Olympics gets robbed in your country.
So I feel like the Brazilians really do want to clear this one up.
And looks like our swimmers weren't exactly upfront with what happened.
Very naughty swimmers.
These swimmers are being saucy.
So there's that.
All right.
I think, unfortunately, that's the time I have.
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